The past is a wilderness of horrors.

These are the voyages of the starprise Entership;

It’s five-mission year to sort out new light and new symbolizations

To badly go whence none men has before gone!

These are the voyages of the starprise Entership;

It’s five-mission year to sort out new light and new symbolizations

To badly go whence none men has before gone!

Mateo, AKA ‘Necrobalmer’, vocalist of San Antonio-based death metal band Mortuary Descent, has been outed as a rapist. Over a period of three years, he sexually assaulted his ex (Jade) in her sleep, forcing himself on her without her consent.

She has since come forward with proof of Necrobalmer having admitted to doing it, at this link: https://twitter.com/5050cIown/status/1397463560108793859?s=20

Note the abuser’s use of emotional blackmail and deflection/projection, blaming her for being mad at him for assaulting her. He has also:

-Roped his mum in to call his survivor’s mum to pressure them into keeping quiet

-Threatened to call the police on her.

-Issuing a statement on twitter calling her a false accuser, only to later delete his account when the backlash became too much.

While this was going on, the band’s guitarist Luis put up a vote to the rest of the band to fire Mateo, only for them to tell Luis to leave: https://twitter.com/KommandoMonky/status/1397238681568780298?s=20

Also peep the drummer’s apathetic and misogynistic response to being confronted: https://twitter.com/KommandoMonky/status/1397047902837612544?s=20

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Which brings us to part two of this shitstorm. MD released their Skeletonization demo through Life After Death Records. Some of you may know Eric from LAD as valley-of-sacrifice on here, otherwise, this is him shilling his label: https://valley-of-sacrifice.tumblr.com/post/651724877420773376/what-label-do-you-run-if-i-may-ask

Multiple people informed Eric about the news and all were met with various levels of skepticism and victim-blaming. After the above proof was forwarded to him, he proceeded to attack Jade as being abusive:

https://twitter.com/maggotcasket/status/1397620964632977409

Eric still has not removed the links to the band’s merch on his website as of 1am May 27th New York time, a whole 3 days after the incident went public, although everything except some t-shirts have been marked as sold out.

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I feel sick to my stomach with all this news that’s out, but I’m beyond tired of seeing sex pests and their support networks get away with it. There is no place for them in metal or in any community for that matter.

If you’re reading this and you are:

-A survivor or knows someone who is, I want you to know you are believed and there are still plenty of decent folks who will help you out. Nothing that happened to you is your fault. My inbox and DMs are always open, and I will try to help as best I can.

-Someone who is close to the heavy music scene in Texas, please spread the word about Mortuary Descent and their associated projects: Spiritual Embodiment (Mateo’s side project) and Executioner (drummer Dailen’s other band). Do not book them for gigs, studio sessions, anything.

-Mateo & co, get fucked.

-Eric, you can fuck off too. Don’t bother contacting me here, I’ve already blocked you and disabled anonymous messages. I hope everyone here who includes you in their tag chains sees you’re a disgusting apologist.

Thanks in advance to Jade (https://twitter.com/5050cIown) and Luis (https://twitter.com/KommandoMonky) for their input and allowing me to publish this.

Edited to show Jade’s + Luis’ permissions

“i couldn’t help it, i was having a bad episode” is a justification, not an apology.

“i’m so fucking sorry, i fucked up, i don’t deserve to live, i should stop talking to anyone ever, i should die” is a second breakdown and a guilt trip. it is not an apology.

when you apologize, the focus should be on the person you hurt. “i’m sorry. i did something that was hurtful to you. even if i was having a rough time, you didn’t deserve to hear that,” is a better apology. if it was a small thing, you can leave it at that.

if you caused significant distress to the other person, this is a good time to talk about how you can minimize damage in the future. and again, even if it is tempting to say you should self-isolate and/or die, that is not a helpful suggestion. it will result in the person you’re talking to trying to talk you out of doing that, which makes your guilt the focus of the conversation instead of their hurt.